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(NoModelJ- J. CASEY.

Cheek Receiver.

VENTOR Patented Dec. 21,1880.

ATTORNEYS.

N.FErF.RS. PHOTO LITHOGRAPHER ASHINGYON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CASEY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

CHECK-RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,740, dated December 21, 1880.

Application filed October 4, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN CASEY, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Check-Receivers, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate to devices for use in restaurants, bar-rooms, and other places to receive the checks handed in by customers and furnish a guard on the money-receiver.

Heretofore it has been usual to provide a locked receptacle simply for receiving the cheeks but such method affords no security against the insertion of a wrong check, and gives no opportunity for detection of fraud after the checks are inserted as they drop in a pile together.

The object of my invention is to provide for exposure of all the checks inserted and retaining those last inserted up to a certain number exposed.

To this end my invention consists in receiv ing tubes or guides formed with open or transparent sides and provided with spring retaining-fingers combined with a receptacle for re ceiving the checks from the tubes. With this I apparatus the checks are inserted into the upper end of the tube or guide and remain exposed until the tube is filled, when the insertion of additional checks forces the same number through the retaining-fingers at the bottom into the receptacle.

In the accompanying drawings, formiu g part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation, partially in section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in larger size. Figs. 3 and 4 show modifications of the retaining devices.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the base or stand of the apparatus, on which are fixed the guide-tubes B B. The tubes B are each formed by two standards, a, that are fixed to the base A at a suitable distance apart, and slotted lengthwise on their adjacent faces to receive the checks edgewisc and form a guideway for them. The upper ends of the tubes are open and are fitted with cap-pieces b, slotted to coincide with the opening. The lower ends of the tubes open through base A, and thereby communicate with the check-receptacle, upon which the ap paratus is to be secured.

The space between standards a of each tube is covered at each side by a plate, 0, of glass or other transparent material, held in place by metal strips d, attached to the standards and lapping upon the glass. The glass, however, is notessential, and may be dispensed with.

At the lower end of tube Bare fitted retaining-fingers e e, which may be of any suitable construction. As shown, the standards a are mortised and the fingers e pivoted in the mortises. The fingers consist of metal strips formed with lugs at their lower ends for catching the checks, and springs f, attached to standards a, bear upon the back of the fingers to force them into contact with the checks. To protect the springs they are covered by cap-plates g, attached to the standards and base.

Instead of the fingers shown at 0, they may be made simply as springs 2', Figs. 3 and 4, attached to the inner side of the standards.

The tube Bis fitted at its lower end with a spring-slide, 7c, fitted for operation by hand and extending normally across the tube.

In using the tubeB the checks (represented at l) are placed in at the top edgewise, and, being retained by the fingers, the tube becomes filled. After that, as another check is inserted, the column of checks is pressed down and the lower check forced out at the bottom. The checks in the tube are open to observation, and remain so until forced out successively. It is thus always easy to watch the checks, and any attempt at fraud can be readily detected.

The guides or tubes may be made of any suitable length, so that the desired number of checks will be exposed at once.

In using the tube B the checks will be placed in the tubes, and when it is filled slide 70 will be pulled out, and all the checks thus allowed to drop at once into the receptacle.

I have shown two tubes for the purpose of illustrating both methods; but the apparatus need have but one tube.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaini the checks are exposed to view until the inas new and desire to secure by Letters Patsertion of additional checks forces a corre- 1o entspending number through the fingers.

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